I got Acronis (I'm licensed) DD 10 and found out too late that it has a 5
year old 2.4 kern on the recovery disk. After 11 emails to their tech
support (one person) he is unable to coax it to see my mouse AND my IDE
drive. The old kern is not appropriate for even my 1 yr old mobo, even in
legacy mode.
Extremely important to me also is that it offers illegal choices - click on
an empty space outside of and non-contiguous to extended area, and with 3
other primary partitions and it offers BOTH primary and extended, both of
which are illegal. it created an overlapping area on my HD which it then
did not detect, and FIXMBR did not fix. I did fix it only by imaging all
individual partitions to another drive and blanking the bad one and imaging
back. I have pointed this out to Acronis tech support but he had no idea
what I was saying.
A much better choice for partition manager imho would be Paragon's new
Partition Manager 9 (I'm licensed). It detected that erroneous partition
table overlap immediately. It also offers only correct choices for what to
do with undefined space and thus keeps you out of trouble. Paragon's PM is
based on the old 7tools PM which I have known and loved for a long time.
Eons ago I used PQPM and was licensed up to 8.1 but damned if I'll give
Symantic $70! And no I won't bitstream it though they're many copies of it
out there.
Many Linux based CDs correctly detect my system - GPARTED, UBUNTU,
FREESPIRE, etc.
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Kris
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